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Anyone still remember Granida 2?
AsukaKishimoto
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I was thinking,thanks to a topic on the forum,about breaking out my sega stuff. I found a copy of my Ps2 version of Grandia 2. Plugging that game in, I forgot how much fun I had in that game. I brought it over to
my buddys house,and I told him I found a copy of Grandia 2. He had no clue what I was reffering to.
Does anyone play Grandia 2 anymore?
my buddys house,and I told him I found a copy of Grandia 2. He had no clue what I was reffering to.
Does anyone play Grandia 2 anymore?
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Was Grandia 2 any good?
Gameplay was good the whole way through, though.
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The combat engine in the game is more or less perfect, not to mention the upgrade system.
I'd argue that the whole thing went to crap around the 33%-50% point. Once you start getting all the AoE spells, they're all so cheap that every single battle except the bosses is "two characters cast AoE, other two mop up the remaining enemy," and with the HP/MP regen points all over the place, there's absolutely no reason not to.
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Sure you could do that. But when you tried to play the game with poison/gravity spells and knowing when to block, battlefield controlling became more entertaining than going demoman on everyone.
It was a little cheap, tough, to know what attacks were the enemies going to use against you. Still it doesn't diminish the fact that the battle system was damn entertaining. Me and my little brother played replayed it a lot. He finished the game with all the skill books and mana eggs in like 30 hours.
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Still like the original more though, but it was a favorite.
So one of those lucky folks that has already played 13 huh? Heh sorry for being an ass.
The story and characters at about halfway turn into total shit. It's like someone takes the generic jrpg angst and pretension nob and turns it up to 11. No cliche' goes unused.
I really need to stop buying games for the sake of buying games.
To be fair, at least part of the ending is different.
Grandia 2 Extreme or whatever was. Grandia 2, the Dreamcast original, was brilliant. Best RPG combat system I know of.
That's funny...I always thought he got both...or maybe I just unlocked the pimp ending.
I don't remember him getting any anything at the end of Grandia 2, but I may have blocked it out from the pain.
I remember being really impressed by the voice acting. Was it one of the first jrpgs to have it?
Epic Fail on the thread's name, though.
Never got around to beating either, but I got way further in Grandia II, even when I pulled them back out and played them again a few years ago I must have only put an hour into SoA while my Grandia II save got maybe 5-6 hours of actual progress.
SoA's random battles and characters were just way too boring and generic for me, even for how much I was into console RPGs back then.
So... it's about a jock who's transported to a strange new land that's being terrorized by a gigantic whale... thing?
Huh.
I got Grandia 2 for cheap just a few weeks ago. I’ll probably give it a shot in the next couple of weeks, since I hear the combat is awesome.
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I thought he was talking about the war......you know.......Grenada??
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But lots of fun, though it did sometimes get annoying not knowing in advance which of the girls you would be using for a dungeon/boss.
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It's also the last Grandia game that came out before Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Coincidence? I think not.
I prefer the faster combat and cheesier plot of Grandia II to Grandia.
Grandia II's plot is like a perfect hot out of the oven slice of plain pizza. It just works.
I re-bought Grandia for the PS2 some time after, I still have it, but haven't touched it in ages.
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Actually,its about a jock transported to a stange land thats being attacked by a whale thing while hes trying to hook up with a virgin priestess and carrying a weapon that doesnt look like it can cut.Oh,and he has a low blood sugar,so he fades near the end.Fun game though.
Grandia's battle system has always been great, but I'd have to say Grandia 3's is better. Or possibly it's just the game integrating the battle system better with what enemies actually throw at you, considering you have to make use of cancels a lot more in order to survive. The characters aren't nearly as interesting though, but the plot's actually really similar, not specifically but in a more general sense, sort of the same thing with the first one. The first one probably had the best actual plot, though I haven't played that one in a long time. I just skipped Extreme because that looked really stupid.
Another problem with it is that it is really linear, there's only ever one sidequest you can do and it's just one small dungeon with like one new enemy. It also follows a distinct pattern of town>dungeon>other dungeon with boss>town throughout most of the game.
Also, Skies of Arcadia has been mentioned. I bought that too when it came out and didn't really like it that much, mainly because of the too frequent random battles which all took way too long, and then the immensely grueling ship battles. I never did finish that version. But I did pick up the Gamecube version and beat that one much later. As far as I can tell, they fixed up the random battle issues and made the special moves skippable, although they didn't do much for the ship battles. But I'd recommend it for anyone who passed on it or didn't like the Dreamcast version.